📘 Read Now 📥 Download
How a Midwestern family with no agriculture experience went from a few backyard chickens to a full-fledged farm - and discovered why local chicks are better. When Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her husband, she never imagined what he'd tell her over dinner - that his dream was to quit his office job (with benefits!) and start a commercial-scale pasture-raised egg farm. His entire agricultural experience consisted of raising five backyard hens, none of whom had yet laid a single egg. To create this pastured poultry ranch, the couple scrambles to acquire nearly 2,000 chickens - all named Lola. These hens, purchased commercially, arrive bereft of basic chicken-like instincts, such as the evening urge to roost. The newbie farmers also deal with their own shortcomings, making for a failed inspection and intense struggles to keep livestock alive (much less laying) during a brutal winter. But with a heavy dose of humor, they learn to negotiate the highly stressed no-man's-land known as middle agriculture. Amundsen sees firsthand how these midsized farms, situated between small-scale operations and mammoth factory farms, are vital to rebuilding America's local food system. With an unexpected passion for this dubious enterprise, Amundsen shares a messy, wry, and entirely educational story of the unforeseen payoffs (and frequent pitfalls) of one couple's ag adventure - and many, many hours spent wrangling chickens.
eBook details
- Title: Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm - from Scratch
- Author : Lucie B. Amundsen, Kate Reading, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Release Date : *
- Genre: Books,Business & Money,Industries,Agriculture
- Pages : * pages
- Size : * KB
Post a Comment for "[DOWNLOAD] Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm - from Scratch by Lucie B. Amundsen, Kate Reading, Blackstone Audio, Inc. ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free"